Though the AMIA massacre occurred on July 18th, 1994 the official commemoration of its sixteenth anniversary took place on the 16th. In these two stories covering the events that took place you’ll find Guillermo Borger, head of the AMIA community organization. the one directly affected by the attack, praising the “good performance” of the present administration with regard to the investigation into the attack and lauding Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s “bravery” in calling for the extradition of the Iranian fugitives in her speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations.
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If you click here you can read a report from Télam, Argentina’s official news agency, about the official visit of President Bashir al Assad to Buenos Aires. You can also see a short excerpt from President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner’s remarks after the lunch which she hosted for the Syrian leader. She talks about the Golan Heights and the Falklands/Malvinas, the importance of founding a Palestinian state and Argentina’s desire to play a leading role in the Middle East peace process. In the story that accompanies the video mention is also made of the signing of bilateral agreements and moves to expand trade; the usual stuff of state visits.
Lisa Goldman has drawn my attention to a reaction by David Landau to the Goldstone report on Israel’s campaign in Gaza and I take the opportunity to do the same for readers of this blog.
This is a guest post by Doug Lieb of AJC, editor of the new blog Durban Countdown.
Richard Falk, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories - previously known for his doubts about what really happened on 9/11 - has just come out with another novel theory.
Yet more evidence of the overlap, when it comes to Israel, between the unreconstructed left and America-first realists comes in the shape of this piece by Robert Dreyfuss in The Nation.
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Fintan O’Toole is a a prominent Irish writer, journalist and theater critic. Writing in the Irish Times, he lays into Israel, accusing it of all of manner lies and obfuscations to disguise the reality of its actions. There are references to other conflicts sprinkled throughout the text but the central intention is clear: strip away the rotten cladding of untruth and show the Israelis to be the blood-soaked monsters that they are.
In his recent post on Israel’s operation in Gaza, David Adler objects to the impression being given that “…the world is divided between virulent Israel-bashers like Richard Falk and A.N.S.W.E.R. on the one hand, and those who support the Israeli bombardment without reservation on the other.”
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This is a guest post by David Adler.
In 2005, when the British parliamentarian George Galloway came to New York to debate Christopher Hitchens on the Iraq war, organizers framed the evening as an either/or: support the war, like Hitchens; or support Galloway’s “antiwar” stance, even though he hailed blood-soaked Iraqi insurgents as freedom fighters and decried the U.S. as a villain supreme.
Richard Falk, who carries a UN Mandate to write reports based solely on testimony from people who loathe Israel, has given an interview to the “Democracy Now!” show in the aftermath of his expulsion from Israel.
According to the BBC, Richard Falk is a “senior UN human rights official.” The phrase confers on him a gravitas which he doesn’t deserve and masks the farce involved in handing a 9/11 conspiracy theorist a mandate to bash Israel.
Among the flock of commentators and bloggers writing about the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Petra Marquardt Bigman’s contribution stands out.
If you look here you’ll find the latest statement from Richard Falk, the UN’s “Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights on Palestinian territories occupied since 1967″. I’ll start with the bit where he comes over all reasonable.
Continue reading ‘The Truth about Richard Falk, Gaza and 9/11′
Adam LeBor relates more strange goings-on at the London Review of Books, the publication which ran John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt’s original essay on “The Israel Lobby”.
Let me begin with a plug: Democratiya is a superb journal and its latest issue is a veritable bounty of enlightened opinion. Particularly recommended are Michael Walzer’s thoughts on how the left can reconstitute its internationalism.
Now to business.
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